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Tags: stickapps, stickapps.com, toksta

amiguinhos uses toksta!

Since 2002 the Amiguinhos.com allows thousands of people find new friends or a special relationship.

The community has grown every year and now thousands of people share interests, photos and messages. Every day there are new people to sign up and find friends and love.

Toksta has been implemented to further encourage the community to communicate with each other beyond the limits of traditional text messages!

Today we released our beautiful Wiki in which we will post FAQs, help on typical problems and a lot of How-To’s describing the power of the simple toksta API and the flexiblity of the toksta implementation script.

You can also see an implementation script, get an overview on useful Javascript calls or known bugs. If you are missing anything in particular which you think might be also useful for a broad audicence, please let us know at support at toksta . com

toksta wiki: http://wiki.toksta.com

Tags: customization, implementation, wiki

Nowadays the use of Flash for a website is fairly common and is widely spread throughout Chat applications all across the web. Most of them are based on Flash in order to achieve quick results in a working production environment. Being one of the few Instant Messaging Applications out on the market that are based on JavaScript, we often get asked: “toksta, why don’t you guys use Flash?”.

This Article is for all Customers that have been wondering and I am going to show you why:

Flash on its own is a wonderfully interactive technology and can impress the viewer very easy, but on the other hand it has one major downturn: It is absolutely positioned. So in order to provide our customers with the impressions of Flash we have coded a Javascript frontend, which you all know as the toksta Instant messenger.

Choosing Javascript over Flash was an easy choice, because it enabled us to give the ability to Theme and redesign right into your hands. With our easy and intuitive interface we gave you  the ability to completely redesign our messenger with the power of CSS, which entitles you do to pretty much do whatever you want!

With the pure force of style rules in CSS you have the possibility to move things around or even to completely replace them, when you want it. There is no further interaction needed but a Designer who knows his job to unleash the ultimate freedom we provide. And in order to give that freedom to our customers, we choose Javascript and CSS over Flash.

Tags: flash, javascript, technology

Nobody likes deadlines (including me). But sometimes they are necessary. In our case we have set the initial deadline to upgrade to the new and shiny toksta v2.0 to today (Friday, June 12th at 11:59pm).

Around 87% of all toksta clients have already managed to upgrade and some are currently still working on it. BUT this blog post would not exist if we wouldn’t have received many mails begging for an extension of the deadline. I have no detailed stats but the #1 reason was by far: “Our developer got sick!” So I guess a lot of developers have caught a nasty virus these days..

But guess what: We knew this would happen! So we are fine with prolonging the deadline for the upgrade until:

+++ Wednesday, June 17th at 11:59pm (MET) +++

So please upgrade your implementation code until this date because we will definately stop supporting toksta v1.0 on Wednesday, June 17th. And trust me: No mercy this time..!

Don’t hesitate to contact our support if you have any questions but get going and make sure your developers get well soon…

- Felix

Tags: deadline, sick developers, toksta 2.0, upgrade

Being a big fan of Googles new browser Chrome, we were always anxious to add support for chrome asap. In the first version this was not possible due to missing cross domain support of the browser. Since the new release of v2.0 (get it here) we could finally make it work. So now you can enjoy toksta with all major browsers: IE 6, 7 & 8, Firefox 3, Safari (Mac) and Google Chrome 2.0.  Enjoy!

Tags: chrome, new features, supported browsers

On June 10th, Mike Butcher will bring TechCrunch back to Berlin! We have already been at the last event in 2008 wich was awsome and also gave us the opportunity to interview Mike, so make sure to get the last tickets and for all startups: apply for pitching (if you are from Germany or Austria)!

Looking forward to see you there!

Tags: pitch, Techcrunch

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) which is based on PHP and MySQL is a free and very popular bulletin board that allows you to set up your own online community easily.

Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.

The plugin is available at the official MOD database of Simple Machines Forum: Toksta Integration (Thanks to Fustrate who has written this plugin!)

If you need help during the installation process, feel free to contact our support team.

Related Posts:
- toksta* IM integration for phpBB
- toksta* IM integration for osDate
- Wordpress Plugin

Tags: instant messenger, integration, plugin, simple machines forum, smf

Now the toksta* Instant Messenger can be integrated easily into the bulletin board software vBulletin. It’s based on PHP and MySQL and one of the most popular bulletin board softwares out there!

To download the modification just register and go to the “implementation” area of our backend. There you can generate your own code and download a detailed instruction. If you need help during the installation process, feel free to contact our support team.

The toksta* IM is also available for: phpBB, osDate, elgg, Wordpress, phpFox and Joomla. (All are available in our backend)

We are continuously developing new ways to integrate our products into 3rd party software. If you have developed a plugin for a product which is not listed above, please leave a comment.

Tags: hack, instant messenger, mod, plugin, vBulletin

A very inspirational video on why we do, what we do. Found through our friends from uberVU.

Tags: entrepreneurship, inspiration, motivation